Every Florida school could have an employee carrying a concealed gun, under a bill a House education panel approved Wednesday. The bill is a reworked version of an armed-teachers bill that died in the Florida Legislature last year. Both are a response to the fatal shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 and an effort, one lawmaker said, to provide "one additional gun for the good guys."

I think children should take mandatory gun classes as early as kindergarten, this way the kids will all have a gun (and of course a proper handling concealed license) This way the evil monsters and predators would not dare enter the gun friendly zone!! Say yes to kids with guns!

The House bill (HB 753) would allow districts to have at least one "school safety designee" on each campus. That person would carry a concealed gun but would first need to meet firearm and school safety training requirements. To be tapped, that person would have to be an active duty or retired military or law enforcement or licensed to carry a concealed weapon.

Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, said previous laws that made schools "gun-free zones" were well intended but inadvertently left schools defenseless, if a "monster" got on campus.

"They don't even have a water pistol in which to charge the gates of hell...to confront this monster," he said.

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